Workmen's advocate., 1887-01-29
WESTERN JOURNALS
Sample of Ignorance Displayed by Frigh,aS9,i Editorial Peanut.ieadS.

tude 0f capItallstlc papers Ill regard to Socialism in the ''golden' North west. The DiSDatch, q little bit of q sheet, with still less brains exoend- ed in 'gotting it up," brings an ar ticle headed "Minneapolis Social ism," which is worth being re-pub- lished for reasons shall give at the close. It is, ~ erfcnS0:
 Minneapolis is going to the front rap idly. In one respect it is likely soon to outrival Chicago, and has, long ago. reached and passed Milwaukee. It is not in population. nor indeed in propserity, that Minneapolis shows to such marked advantage by comparison with the cities named. It is in the glorious immunity which she accords to the Knights of the Red Flag. Socialism in Minneapolis is rampant. Every one who would under stand well the true gospel of social chaos should settle in Minneapolis and attend the socialist gatherings.
 "lcsterday Martins Hall, in that city, Si ering. It is doubtful whether Chicago's lake front ever beheld more enthusiast ic mob of red-handed anarchists, if all accounts be true. There was exactly the same rot indulged in about the sun going down, ten years from now, on one of the fiercest, bIoodest and most terrible wars-the social revolution, etc., etc., and a collection was taken up for the anarchist martyrs at Chicago.
 "Dr. Ames and Carter Harrison are of the same political faith, and as executive officers have much i'll common. The city of Chicago owes it to Carter Harri sons administration that these bowling madmen were allowed to consummate their maniac doctrines by hurling dyna- mite in the faces of public officers. It is | to the neglect and connivance of the l democratic politicians of Chicago that the tragedy of the Haymarket is charge | able
 "We ask Dr. Ames, in the name of labor and liberty, in behalf of private decency and the public peace of the city of which he is mayor. to bring these crazy manifestations to a close, and do it quickly and etfectualy. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The time for applying the remedy of prevention is the present moment, and in the name of the prosperity and fair fame of the Northwest we demand that it be applied"
 To take up collection for men condemned to die, in order that they may get fair and impartial trial, is highly commendable, and is the duty of every law-loying citi zen to do in as far as law is taken to mean justice. The Dispatch will have no justice but brutality rel gn- ing, and therefore is a good many times worse than the objects of its hatred.
 A person demanding public off cers to act without or against the authority of law-freedom of press and 'speech--can lay no claim to be- ing a lawful and good citizen, and his utterances must be regarded with suspicion and distrust, because in huenced by prejudice and a mind intent to do mischief.
 If the manifestations of Socialists anarchists may answer for them selves-are equal to those of insane persons, why this hatred? They are only too sound to be overcome by sophistry-therefore this mad howl of the Dtspatch.
 The lie on the throne is bound downward, the truth in prison is on its road to success. Why does the Dispatch not make its charge cover some section of the Penal Code oi this State? It can't. Socialists are lovers of peace, and friends of the people, and agitate, without hope of reward or fear of disapproval, fol the prosperity of the people-even if they should displease some brutal and ignorant editor.
 Truth is q mighty weapon. It i: against monopoly and spoliation o1 labor, and no amount of force car strangle it-no clubbing, no shoot , ing, no imprisonment, Do men O the pattern of the capitalistic editol know of the early Christians, of the ' American revolution:
 We have but one protection agains such assaults: patience; and but on' remedy: greater aetirity in speaking the truth. Comrades, circulate you . official journal; every new subscrlbe
 is one less for the lying press of ou